Seven Heads, Ten Horns: The History of the Devil

Season 2, Epi 9: A Hook Sticking Through the Devil's Cheek


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The episode that celebrates one year of 7H10H! Then we discusses how the Trinity happened, some influential theologians from Cappadocia, the devil as heretic, the devil as a man-eating Leviathan, Jesus as a fishhook, and God as the devil's therapist.


Sources:

Gregory of Nyssa’s Great Catechism: chapters XX-XXVI

Gregory of Nyssa, On the Soul and the Resurrection

Nicholas P. Costas “The Last Temptation of Satan: Divine Deception in Greek Patristic Interpretations of the Passion Narrative”

Jeffrey Fischer & Kyle Kirchhoff, “‘Even the Enemy himself would not dispute that the action was just’: Disguise and Self-Deception in Gregory of Nyssa”

Adam Kotsko, The Prince of this World, Ch. 3

Morenna Ludlow, “Demons, Evil, and Liminality in Cappadocian Theology”


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Seven Heads, Ten Horns: The History of the DevilBy Klaus Yoder & Travis Stevens

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